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Boots of Speed?

mas0mas0 Member Posts: 7
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I was under the impression that the Boots of Speed only affects movement speed. When I give them to Coran (level 5/6) his attacks per round with Dead Shot +2 goes from 5/2 to 3. His melee weapon is also increased 1/2 attack per round. Also happens selectively with other NPC's. It has been a (long) while since I last played Baldurs Gate and I am rusty on the mechanics, is it supposed to be this way or are the boots a little more enchanted than normal?
Thanks

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  • ShinShin Member Posts: 2,344
    This is some kind of bug - the boots aren't supposed to increase attacks, nor is the actual item coded to do so. However, it seems either the EE engine interprets it as doing so, or the UI interprets it that way even though the actual number of attacks isn't increased. Can you do some testing with and without the boots and see if the actual number of attacks per round changes, or if it's just the UI text?
  • mas0mas0 Member Posts: 7
    Did some testing with my current party, consisting of charname (fighter/mage dual wielder), Dorn, Coran, Branwen, Imoen and Neera. Tested with melee and ranged weapons for everyone except charname (dual wielder) and Neera (no ranged weapon). According to the UI, the boots increased the APR of Dorn's melee attack and both ranged and melee attack for Coran (all others unaffected). However, in actual combat, the boots increase the APR for Dorns melee, Coran's melee and Imoen's melee, all others unaffected. Weird lol
  • VintrastormVintrastorm Member Posts: 216
    You should post this under the bug forum so the devs will see it. :)
  • colonel_burgercolonel_burger Member Posts: 279
    I hate to be a munchkin, but I wish this bug wasn't fixed ;)
  • ElendarElendar Member Posts: 831
    I'd rather them fix it.... and then add five more pairs of the boots for my other characters :P
  • colonel_burgercolonel_burger Member Posts: 279
    Touche.
  • ZanathKariashiZanathKariashi Member Posts: 2,869
    Yeah it's a bug. One that's been present in both BG1 and 2 forever...supposedly one of the fixpacks corrects it.

    If you have a 1/2 attack, wearing the boots rounds the attack up...that's what its doing.
  • BlackIvoryBlackIvory Member Posts: 75
    seriously? i always thought its ment to be that, always was like that in BG2 :P
  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    There are a couple of threads on this topic already in both general and the bug forums. As @ZanarthKariashi says it's a longstanding issue that is present in BG2 (& possibly vanilla BG1).
  • ankhegankheg Member Posts: 546
    It was always so. Just like a haste effect. The same goes for the Engergy Blades spell. It shouldn't change your movement speed just the attack but it always did both because it used a kinda improved haste. It's funny though that the items are working nice with ring of free action and that haste can be stacked. I don't really think it's a bug. If you can walk faster I believe you have more chance to do faster attacks as well. It seems logical enough.
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